Recent Annual Fitness to Practice report shows that despite fewer nurses and midwives being referred to the NMC there is higher numbers being struck off than previous years according to this article.

 2.5% drop in referrals to the NMC compared with 5,509 the previous year.     

155 nurses were struck off by the NMC in 2018-19 – 25% of the total cases. This compares with 243 nurses struck off the previous year, or 21% of all cases.